Fire between Cuevas del Valle and Mombeltrán

250 people work in the cave fire

250 people work to try to suffocate the flames of the fire unleashed on Tuesday night in Cuevas del Valle. Therefore, a fire that remains “active in its entire perimeter” as it just reported Álvaro Gómez Carrasco, head of the day of the CPM of Ávila.

“The weather conditions. Additionally, Therefore, the availability of the fuel” are responsible for the fire that could not be controlled, although it has been avoided that it reaches the municipality of Mombeltrán, where it was headed strongly in its first bars.

That did. as the territorial delegate, José Francisco Hernández Herrero has just confirmed, to be ordered a “partial confinement of the area” that is maintained at this time.

“Thanks to the troops. ” says Hernández Herrero to the 250 people who have been working all night “in the worst wind conditions, fire between cuevas del valle at night and in very abrupt terrain” it was achieved that the fire not only did not enter the people but, in addition, it would not affect “non -forestry goods”, such as farms or urbanizations.

“This has given rise to us to have the opportunity to perimeter throughout the day the fire with the presence of the aerial media. ” says the delegate.

“There is a lot of work ahead. to avoid forest mass since the urban environment has been conveniently isolated,” he says.